Sunday, November 24, 2002

I've put up my Essen 2002 photos. I'vealso played several games of Trias, ad acta, ZooSim, and FischeFluppen Frikadellen, and all have held up well. The only one I'mbeginning to have some questions about is "ZooSim", which seems tohave a bit of a rich-get-richer problem. Next time I play I thinkI'll play with a fixed income variant. That is, everyone gets 3income at the end of each round.

Saturday, November 16, 2002

The first part of the auction was a series of "box lots", where 1 to 3 boxesfull of games were auctioned at once. They went for prices ranging from $15 toover $300, typically $50 or so per box. There were about 350 boxes done thisway. They included miscellaneous junk, prototypes, sid's notes, and valuablestuff like Eon CE expansions. Many spielfrieks won lots.

After a short break, they started the individual game auctions. Most of this isolder stuff and often went for quite a bit individually. A 1941 Wizard of Ozboard, with no box, pieces or rules went for $190. Few spielfrieks I noticedbid on these.

Finally, part way through the individual games, they did the shelf lots, wherethe most spielfieky style games were. Many 3M games, as well as a lot ofGerman games went in these lots. Among other things, I got myself an instant 3Mbookshelf collection.The SPI games brought some of the higher prices of the event.

The whole auction wrapped up around 7, and a small amount of trading amongstbuyers occured. Overall, a very nice event.

An important note was that despite selling about 10,000 games, this was only alittle more than half of the collection. The rest will be auctioned in thespring.

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I am a Engineering Director at Google. My team and I work on Search.

Previously, I was the CTO at an 802.11 location and security company, Newbury Networks in Boston. In June, 1999 I received my Masters degree from the MIT Media Lab. I graduated from MIT (undergraduate) in June, 1997, in physics. Prior to that I was CTO of net.Genesis from 1994 to 1996.